Originally posted by old4570 The best way to get over a lost pet , is to get another one .
We still have one cat left - Sonny.
Very different from Happy. Semi-feral and a hunting machine, loves the dark of the basement where he can hunt, loves to be touched and have his belly rubbed but can't tolerate being held and confined. He is the way he is because his first years were spent as a free roaming barn cat. We went out to the farm one day and when we got back home Sonny jumped out of the car - we must have left the window open in the car when we were at the farm.
We couldn't take him back to the farm for a couple of weeks but by that time Happy and Sonny had bonded and the decision to keep him was taken out of our hands. They became very close and I think Happy's long life and good health had a lot to do with the close intense bond that was formed between Happy and Sonny.
Two very different creatures but between the two of them they seemed to have formed a sort of perfect harmonious yin and yang - I'm convinced they were meant for each other.